Why don't you alter your brain chemistry to remove that stick up your ass.
Why don't you go talk to Alan Turing to see how well hormone therapy works in controlling sex drive. Oh wait. He killed himself.
There's plenty of time in the day to look at the sky and get off. The only reason for "eliminating" masturbation and sexual fantasies is if you're morally opposed to it for some reason. Sexual release is a healthy part of life.
Ashcroft and co has really pissed of the Howard Stern crowd, blue collar stiffs who like beer and titties. and who would have voted for bush. These shannanagans are going to cost them way more votes then they would have gained.
Bush is going to lose the election for sure. Kerry isn't that great, but the worst he'll do is raise taxes and maybe push for more gun control (not that it matters, bush signed off on the assault-weapons-ban renewal).
For each one of those 40 spam messages you get, how many are filtered, and how many are sent to dead or non-existent addresses?
Before I setup autopr0n, I probably surfed for porn about two or three times a week. but I get spam every day. And a lot of it now is that damn image-laden crap.
What does this have to do with IE? IE is going to have a built-in popup blocker in about a month from SP2, and toolbars that have it now are plentiful.
Wow. Well, your post will make sense in about a month then. That said, isn't the new version of IE for XP only? or has that changed? A lot of people still use older versions of windows.
You've just been visiting the wrong porn sites. If you just search for "porn" on google, you'll get a bunch of crap. In addition to my own site there are a couple good TGPs that have strict anti-popup rules. Before AP, my favorites were the hun and asianthumbs
But really, you should get a popup blocker. Google toolbar does it, as does mozilla, and most other non-sucky browsers.
It went down for a while when my server died. I was too busy with finals and final projects to do anything about it for way to long. The site is back up now on a new host (without the pesky bandwidth restrictions of the previous location) and has been for about a month or so.
The audacity to pay you to express their opinions, and not only that, but opinions that say mean things about your favorite operating system!!
When will the madness end.
Seriously, you don't have a right not to be offended, and being offended about the OS wars is about the lamest thing evar. As long as the ads are clearly labeled, they should be accepted. Rather then calling for a boycott, write articles explaining why the ads are misleading. M$ will probably pull them themselves if you do. If there's editorial pressure to change the content to better suit the advertisers, then there's a problem. And that should be the problem discussed.
Slashdot runs Microsoft ads, there are lots of people who like working on both windows and Linux (shock, horror!)
Oh well, whatever. I have a suspicion that this boycott will fail miserably.
Thinking back on all the software development groups I've been in, it seems most of the coders were not parents, and the coders that were parents seemed to have trouble with things like dealing with unplanned death marches and not being there for their family.
Just because it's possible to have "unplanned death marches." in the software world doesn't meant that you should have too. In fact, if you do it'll probably mean that the software you write won't be adequately tested before it's deployed.
Anyway, you shouldn't have to stand for that crap. If you're team is slipping behind deadlines, it's the managers fault, not yours. Asking you to sacrifice your social/family life because of someone else's fuckups is ridiculous.
Joel Bleskacek, father: "I was quite angry and I confronted him. I asked him why he was driving so fast during the crowded lunch hour on the sidewalk. He claimed my daughter jumped in front of him."
******
That implies that the father hadn't even SEEN the incident. the girl was _3_ years old. Now, I might be stupid but what the hell was the parent thinking letting her toddle around like that in the first place?
Uh, no it doesn't. For one thing, the girl might actually have "jumped" in front of the guy not noticing him, which would mean that both people were telling the truth. (Rider: "she jumped in front of me" Father: "he claimed she jumped in front of him"). All that it implies is that the father and the rider had a difference of opinion about what constitutes a "Jump", which is totally reasonable in cases like this. The fact that you've jumped to a ridiculous conclusion and used it to attack the guy's parenting skills, however, implies you're a jackass.
Well, whoever signed off on the code and said "it's ready to go" are the ones who fucked up. I mean I suppose you could have a situation where the actual production environment was vastly different from the development/testing one, but I find that doubtful.
Really, there's all kinds of blame to go around, and programmers deserve some of it, the system never should have been so brittle as to cause these kinds of problems in the first place.
Hotmail is pretty upfront with their "check every 45 days or have your mail deleted" thing.
The only problem is that using MSN messenger used to "count" as logging on to hotmail, and then it didn't, so I ended up losing all my saved emails from high school. Ah well.
At our library, you could register for computer time (or even typewriter time! back in the day) and use them for free for a couple hours. This was when I was a kid and computing wasn't all that widespread.
The Seiko thing is a pretty amazing piece of engineering for the time, IMO. But who would want to sit there staring at their wrist for more then a few seconds. I mean, after a couple minutes wouldn't your arm get tired?
Why not make some "eyephones", not to be so gibsonesq, but wouldn't a small monitor suspended a few inches from your face make a lot more sense for 'ultraportable' TV?
You lucky bastard. You must never have moved your code developed with a modern Sun JDK to a machine using Microsoft's VM.
Now why the hell would I want to do that!? Complaning about MS's "So non-standard we got sued over it" VM not being compatable isn't much of an argument. And you're right. I have mostly only moved code between JVMs that were modern for their time. But most of the machines I've ever had to deal with had 'em, so I don't see that as a very big deal.
The beauty of java is that I can take compiled binaries (which I may or may not have the source too) and run 'em on 99% of the machines out there (any windows, apple, or Linux box basicaly)
Let me be the first to say: I hope to god Eric Raymond doesn't try to take credit for this. For those of you who don't know, ESR wrote an open letter asking for sun to Open-Source java. He wasn't the first, by a long shot. And IBM also asked for the same thing. Given ESR's tendency to take credit for just about everything though, I'm sure he'll claim that this was his doing...
That said, I hope java doesn't end up fragmented. One of the really nice things about java is that despite a few problems, it's very portable. I've never personally had a problem moving my code from one machine to another. I hope we don't end up with lots of different "distributions" of java. While Linus has managed to keep the Linux kernel mostly whole, That has a lot to do with his political skills. Lots of OSS projects end up fragmented.
I also hope this isn't an instance of sun trying to save some of their technology from being destroyed as their ship goes down. Sun has been struggling, and I hope they pull through and continue with their leadership in the development of java.
Don't encorage these fuckers.
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Poetry spam? I'd rather have an inbox that was useable. The amount of poetry/random stories in spam has gone way up in order to get around baysian filters, and it wouldn't suprise me if all text based filters will be useless soon. I mean, honestly. We'll soon need to either implement visual-based filtering (filtering based on the visual model that would be shown if the spam was HTML rendered, or even filtering of images). Or everyone is going to have to get SPF and even auto-whitelisting working.
Microsoft Outlook 2003, the latest version of the company's e-mail and calendar software, hangs for me about once a day, requiring me to restart my PC. I also have a problem with Word 2003: Whenever I bullet a line of text, every line in the document gets a bullet. Asking Windows to shut down is more of a request than a command--it might, it might not. And recently, Internet Explorer stopped opening for me.
Is this guy still running windows 98?
I mean, I don't use word 2k3, but I seriously doubt they'd ship the product with a bug like that, unless it was extreemly rare. I mean, can you imagine if word shipped with bullet points not working!? What would all those poor bullet-mad power-pointers do?
And yeah, outlook is bugy still. But microsoft really improved their stability over the past few years.
There are lots of different methods to do "drm", but PKI based systems do not need to keep the private key on the host system.
We're talking about a system for signing code, i.e. your computers OS won't give access to protected content to programs that haven't been signed by an authorized party. The signing key (in other words, the private key) never needs to leave the offices of Microsoft, the RIAA or whoever does the code signing. The user only needs to keep a copy of the verification key (the public key).
wow, this is actually pretty cool. Imagine being able to download a bios patch off the 'net that would let you boot the machine directly into Linux, or hell... put a webserver right into the bios chip.
In the future I can see the ultimate "geek" motherboard having a memory-stick or CF card slot for the bios, rather then using chips that aren't often used by consumers. You'd be able to walk down to best buy or Wal-Mart and buy a new bios chip to play around with.
Having an open-source bios wont prevent DRM any more then having an open-source OS will prevent file permission restrictions. The source to Linux wont do you any good without the root password, and the source to the BIOS won't do you any good without a signing certificate on a DRM-enabled motherboard.
While the source may be available, that won't mean it can't contain DRM. After all, any good secure system should be secure wether or not the source is visible or not.
Think about it, the fact that you can see the source code to Linux doesn't mean that a regular user has any greater ability to gain root. That's exactly how these new DRM systems work, by taking a way a user's right to be root on their own machine.
Flash your own Tiano BIOS, and on DRM certified mobo's it simply won't run unless its signed by Microsoft or someone.
So this wont help with DRM, but it's still a good thing:P
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Why don't you alter your brain chemistry to remove that stick up your ass.
Why don't you go talk to Alan Turing to see how well hormone therapy works in controlling sex drive. Oh wait. He killed himself.
There's plenty of time in the day to look at the sky and get off. The only reason for "eliminating" masturbation and sexual fantasies is if you're morally opposed to it for some reason. Sexual release is a healthy part of life.
Ashcroft and co has really pissed of the Howard Stern crowd, blue collar stiffs who like beer and titties. and who would have voted for bush. These shannanagans are going to cost them way more votes then they would have gained.
Bush is going to lose the election for sure. Kerry isn't that great, but the worst he'll do is raise taxes and maybe push for more gun control (not that it matters, bush signed off on the assault-weapons-ban renewal).
For each one of those 40 spam messages you get, how many are filtered, and how many are sent to dead or non-existent addresses?
Before I setup autopr0n, I probably surfed for porn about two or three times a week. but I get spam every day. And a lot of it now is that damn image-laden crap.
Why don't you read the actual standards and then comment, rather then speculating out of your ass.
What does this have to do with IE? IE is going to have a built-in popup blocker in about a month from SP2, and toolbars that have it now are plentiful.
Wow. Well, your post will make sense in about a month then. That said, isn't the new version of IE for XP only? or has that changed? A lot of people still use older versions of windows.
You've just been visiting the wrong porn sites. If you just search for "porn" on google, you'll get a bunch of crap. In addition to my own site there are a couple good TGPs that have strict anti-popup rules. Before AP, my favorites were the hun and asianthumbs
But really, you should get a popup blocker. Google toolbar does it, as does mozilla, and most other non-sucky browsers.
It went down for a while when my server died. I was too busy with finals and final projects to do anything about it for way to long. The site is back up now on a new host (without the pesky bandwidth restrictions of the previous location) and has been for about a month or so.
/takes bow
:P
Actually, my site only pumps out a measly 255 megabytes per day. At least that's what it's been doing recently. Shouldn't be too long before it's up to a terabyte or three.
There's an ad for "AOL high-speed, surf the internet 5x faster." on there now. How many sys-admins are still on dialup...
DAMN MICROSOFT, DAMN THEM TO HELL.
The audacity to pay you to express their opinions, and not only that, but opinions that say mean things about your favorite operating system!!
When will the madness end.
Seriously, you don't have a right not to be offended, and being offended about the OS wars is about the lamest thing evar. As long as the ads are clearly labeled, they should be accepted. Rather then calling for a boycott, write articles explaining why the ads are misleading. M$ will probably pull them themselves if you do. If there's editorial pressure to change the content to better suit the advertisers, then there's a problem. And that should be the problem discussed.
Slashdot runs Microsoft ads, there are lots of people who like working on both windows and Linux (shock, horror!)
Oh well, whatever. I have a suspicion that this boycott will fail miserably.
Thinking back on all the software development groups I've been in, it seems most of the coders were not parents, and the coders that were parents seemed to have trouble with things like dealing with unplanned death marches and not being there for their family.
Just because it's possible to have "unplanned death marches." in the software world doesn't meant that you should have too. In fact, if you do it'll probably mean that the software you write won't be adequately tested before it's deployed.
Anyway, you shouldn't have to stand for that crap. If you're team is slipping behind deadlines, it's the managers fault, not yours. Asking you to sacrifice your social/family life because of someone else's fuckups is ridiculous.
Joel Bleskacek, father: "I was quite angry and I confronted him. I asked him why he was driving so fast during the crowded lunch hour on the sidewalk. He claimed my daughter jumped in front of him." ****** That implies that the father hadn't even SEEN the incident. the girl was _3_ years old. Now, I might be stupid but what the hell was the parent thinking letting her toddle around like that in the first place?
Uh, no it doesn't. For one thing, the girl might actually have "jumped" in front of the guy not noticing him, which would mean that both people were telling the truth. (Rider: "she jumped in front of me" Father: "he claimed she jumped in front of him"). All that it implies is that the father and the rider had a difference of opinion about what constitutes a "Jump", which is totally reasonable in cases like this. The fact that you've jumped to a ridiculous conclusion and used it to attack the guy's parenting skills, however, implies you're a jackass.
Well, whoever signed off on the code and said "it's ready to go" are the ones who fucked up. I mean I suppose you could have a situation where the actual production environment was vastly different from the development/testing one, but I find that doubtful.
Really, there's all kinds of blame to go around, and programmers deserve some of it, the system never should have been so brittle as to cause these kinds of problems in the first place.
Hotmail is pretty upfront with their "check every 45 days or have your mail deleted" thing.
The only problem is that using MSN messenger used to "count" as logging on to hotmail, and then it didn't, so I ended up losing all my saved emails from high school. Ah well.
At our library, you could register for computer time (or even typewriter time! back in the day) and use them for free for a couple hours. This was when I was a kid and computing wasn't all that widespread.
How is a it a 'wrist watch' if it's around your neck?
The Seiko thing is a pretty amazing piece of engineering for the time, IMO. But who would want to sit there staring at their wrist for more then a few seconds. I mean, after a couple minutes wouldn't your arm get tired?
Why not make some "eyephones", not to be so gibsonesq, but wouldn't a small monitor suspended a few inches from your face make a lot more sense for 'ultraportable' TV?
You lucky bastard. You must never have moved your code developed with a modern Sun JDK to a machine using Microsoft's VM.
Now why the hell would I want to do that!? Complaning about MS's "So non-standard we got sued over it" VM not being compatable isn't much of an argument. And you're right. I have mostly only moved code between JVMs that were modern for their time. But most of the machines I've ever had to deal with had 'em, so I don't see that as a very big deal.
The beauty of java is that I can take compiled binaries (which I may or may not have the source too) and run 'em on 99% of the machines out there (any windows, apple, or Linux box basicaly)
Let me be the first to say: I hope to god Eric Raymond doesn't try to take credit for this. For those of you who don't know, ESR wrote an open letter asking for sun to Open-Source java. He wasn't the first, by a long shot. And IBM also asked for the same thing. Given ESR's tendency to take credit for just about everything though, I'm sure he'll claim that this was his doing...
That said, I hope java doesn't end up fragmented. One of the really nice things about java is that despite a few problems, it's very portable. I've never personally had a problem moving my code from one machine to another. I hope we don't end up with lots of different "distributions" of java. While Linus has managed to keep the Linux kernel mostly whole, That has a lot to do with his political skills. Lots of OSS projects end up fragmented.
I also hope this isn't an instance of sun trying to save some of their technology from being destroyed as their ship goes down. Sun has been struggling, and I hope they pull through and continue with their leadership in the development of java.
Poetry spam? I'd rather have an inbox that was useable. The amount of poetry/random stories in spam has gone way up in order to get around baysian filters, and it wouldn't suprise me if all text based filters will be useless soon. I mean, honestly. We'll soon need to either implement visual-based filtering (filtering based on the visual model that would be shown if the spam was HTML rendered, or even filtering of images). Or everyone is going to have to get SPF and even auto-whitelisting working.
Microsoft Outlook 2003, the latest version of the company's e-mail and calendar software, hangs for me about once a day, requiring me to restart my PC. I also have a problem with Word 2003: Whenever I bullet a line of text, every line in the document gets a bullet. Asking Windows to shut down is more of a request than a command--it might, it might not. And recently, Internet Explorer stopped opening for me.
Is this guy still running windows 98?
I mean, I don't use word 2k3, but I seriously doubt they'd ship the product with a bug like that, unless it was extreemly rare. I mean, can you imagine if word shipped with bullet points not working!? What would all those poor bullet-mad power-pointers do?
And yeah, outlook is bugy still. But microsoft really improved their stability over the past few years.
Too bad you can't say the same of their security.
There are lots of different methods to do "drm", but PKI based systems do not need to keep the private key on the host system.
We're talking about a system for signing code, i.e. your computers OS won't give access to protected content to programs that haven't been signed by an authorized party. The signing key (in other words, the private key) never needs to leave the offices of Microsoft, the RIAA or whoever does the code signing. The user only needs to keep a copy of the verification key (the public key).
wow, this is actually pretty cool. Imagine being able to download a bios patch off the 'net that would let you boot the machine directly into Linux, or hell... put a webserver right into the bios chip.
In the future I can see the ultimate "geek" motherboard having a memory-stick or CF card slot for the bios, rather then using chips that aren't often used by consumers. You'd be able to walk down to best buy or Wal-Mart and buy a new bios chip to play around with.
Having an open-source bios wont prevent DRM any more then having an open-source OS will prevent file permission restrictions. The source to Linux wont do you any good without the root password, and the source to the BIOS won't do you any good without a signing certificate on a DRM-enabled motherboard.
While the source may be available, that won't mean it can't contain DRM. After all, any good secure system should be secure wether or not the source is visible or not.
:P
Think about it, the fact that you can see the source code to Linux doesn't mean that a regular user has any greater ability to gain root. That's exactly how these new DRM systems work, by taking a way a user's right to be root on their own machine.
Flash your own Tiano BIOS, and on DRM certified mobo's it simply won't run unless its signed by Microsoft or someone.
So this wont help with DRM, but it's still a good thing